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Introduction to Pediatric Ultrasound
Introduction to Pediatric Ultrasound Online Course is comprised of thirteen (13) modules and is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of pediatric ultrasound examination techniques. Imaging fundamentals, scan techniques for abdominal, neurosonography, neonatal spine, pediatric hip, and trauma applications are also included. Enrollment is valid for 12 months (365 days) and begins the moment the participant is enrolled. Extend your online course access another 3 months with the addition of an onsite hands-on workshop or registration for a regularly scheduled GCUS scan workshop.
OBJECTIVES
- Increase the participants’ knowledge to better perform and/or interpret pediatric ultrasound examinations.
- State the basic fundamentals of ultrasound physics and demonstrate appropriate optimization of system controls.
- Identify normal and abnormal imaging characteristics of the pediatric urinary tract and GI tract.
- Demonstrate protocols for evaluation of the trauma patient.
- List the benefits of soft-tissue and MSK ultrasound in the pediatric patient.
- Demonstrate ultrasound protocols for evaluation of the neonatal head, pediatric hip and spine.
- Identify normal and abnormal characteristics of the neonatal head, pediatric hip, and spine.
- Outline testicular ultrasound protocols and recognize commonly seen abnormalities.
- Increase confidence to incorporate protocols, techniques and interpretation criteria to improve diagnostic and treatment accuracy.
AUDIENCE
Sonographers, physicians and other medical professionals involved with performing and/or interpretation of pediatric ultrasound examinations. Physician participants may include (but is not limited to): radiology, neonatologists, pediatrics, emergency medicine, critical care, GI, and urology.
TOPICS
- Imaging Fundamentals: The Basics
- Abdominal Sonography Anatomy and Scan Fundamentals
- Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma
- Ultrasound Evaluation of the Pediatric Gastrointestinal Tract
- Ultrasound Evaluation of the Pediatric Genitourinary System
- Scrotal Ultrasound in the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Patient
- Ultrasound Evaluation of the Pediatric Thyroid and Neck
- Pediatric Ultrasound Case Studies
- Advanced Thoracic Ultrasound for the Pediatric Patient
- Ultrasound Evaluation of the Neonatal Spine
- Ultrasound Evaluation of the Pediatric Hip
- Introduction to Pediatric Neurosonology
- Soft Tissue and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in the Pediatric Patient
Date of Original Release: 3/5/2020
This edition valid for credit through: 3/5/2023
